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The unsearchable riches of Christ, and of grace and glory in and through [sic]…The unsearchable riches of Christ, and of grace and glory in and thorow [sic]…
The unsearchable riches of Christ, and of grace and glory in and through [sic] him. Diligently searched into, clearly unfolded, and comfortably holden forth, in fourteen rich gospel sermons preached on several texts, at communions, in Glasgow. / By the late pious & powerful gospel-preacher in that city, Mr. James Durham.The unsearchable riches of Christ, and of grace and glory in and thorow [sic] him. Diligently searched into, clearly unfolded, and comfortably holden forth, in fourteen rich gospel sermons preached on several texts, at communions, in Glasgow. / By the late pious & powerful gospel-preacher in that city, Mr. James Durham.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1685
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Subscribe, I am God• This is called a yielding to God, or the giving of t• hand to him, 2 Chron. 30.8. and Rom. 10.3. It […] called A submitting to the righteousness of God. Second ly, When we speak of this impulse towards, or desi• of Covenanting with God, It's no• to be understood […] every raw wish, such as Balaam bad to be in Heaven but it is a seriously urging impulse, an earnest hung and thirst and an ardent longing to have this at a point It's such a thirsting desire, as all the world beside w• not be able to quench: It makes the Soul eager in t• pursuit of the thing, even to meet and close with Go• in the Covenant: It's in effect, that which, Matth. 5.6. ⟨p. 207⟩is called a hungering and thirsting after righteousness: Because it hath in it a fixed longing with Holy Pain: which Cant. 5.8. Is called a being sick of Love: It's such a desire as makes the heart even faint and sick for the want of the thing desired, which can be satisfied with nothing else: no more then a very hungry man can be satisfied, if handfuls of Gold were offered to him, it's meat he must have. In this respect (which will be the Reason of the Doctrine) Christ Jesus is called the food of the Soul, and the Covenant is like the Pap, whereby Christs fullness is Communicated and conveyed to us: for we have no access to Christ but by the Covenant: therefore, Ephes. 2.12. These two are put together, being without Christ, and being without the Covenant: and Isaiah 66.11, 12. Converts are said to Suck and be satisfied with the Breasts of the Churches Consolation and to be dandled on her knees: Believers are like new born Babes, whom nothing can satisfy or do good to but the Breasts: and the Ordinances are, as it were, the breasts at which they suck, and which, are as so many Pipes to convey to them Spiritual nourishment: to which the Apostle alludeth,